Steven J. Zipperstein (born 1950) is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. Zipperstein earned his B.A. and Ph.D. at the

University of California at Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a Normal school, teachers colle ...

. In 1993 Zipperstein accepted an invitation to teach Jewish Studies for a semester at the

Russian State University for the Humanities The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH, RGGU; russian: Росси́йский госуда́рственный гуманита́рный университе́т, РГГУ, translit=Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj universit ...

, Russia's main center for Archival Studies in Moscow.

Books

*'' Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History'' (2018) *'' Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing'' (Yale University Press,2009) *''The Worlds of

S. An-sky Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863 – November 8, 1920), known by his pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-sky), was a Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist. He is best known for his play ...

: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century'' edited volume; co-edited with Gabriella Safran (Stanford University Press, 2006) *''Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity'' (University of Washington Press, 1999) *

References

Historians of Jews and Judaism Jewish historians American male non-fiction writers Stanford University faculty Kishinev pogrom 1950 births Living people 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub